Are you doing this on a production server? With large UBB.C -> UBB.T imports I'd generally only do it on a dedicated server which doesn't have much of anything else going on...

Classic in itself was a resource hog, and basically what you're doing is reading every file ever made in classic and then writing it to threads; there's just so much that can go awry and wrong during an import from that particular product...

dedicated server with a ton of horsepower and no other activity save the import/conversion.

i would expect to see the mysql db updating, but that doesn't happen at all.

soon as it begins the post import is when a popup asks what to do with the importer script. the mysql activity goes dead.

This may sound like a silly question (and probably is) but is PHP5 installed on the server (or a version of PHP)?

It is asking if you want to save a file as if it doesn't realize it is supposed to be running as a script.


Dunny

yup, php 5.1

Well something is wrong since firefox is prompting to save/open the file.
Possibly something awry in the server config.
Or even your browser.
Have you tried the compatibility test script?
Or better yet just install threads as a virgin new install and see if you have problems.

no problem installing threads on my server, and creating/populating a virgin new database, works just fine. stumped on this one ...

Could be a issue with either file permissions for the import script or a issue with the browser you are using.

I would suggest opening a support ticket with UBB to resolve.
You know they do offer upgrade services as well.

FYI,
The version you are upgrading from is probably the most tedious one to perform.
Especially with the size of your board.

before running the importer script, i made sure everything was read/write.

a few dayze ago, the ubb tech group did an import test of my forum and it worked. very long story short, i had been trying to convert my classic board to a relational database for years and no one, not vb or phpbb or smf or even ubbthreads, could make it happen. i worked with rick (former ubb owner) from the end of last year to about march this year and he had problems and it never converted. my incorrect assumption was that my forum couldn't get converted, so i didn't bother even attempting and contacted ubb tech. it appears that the import/conversion is more than just running an importer script.

I know when I upgraded from the older version of threads there was actually two imports that had to be done.... I had to go from one 6.x version to like 6.5 THEN I could change over to 7.1... maybe that is the case here as well... I remember we couldn't convert threads directly to 7.1 (depending on the version of threads it was).

Dunny

The issue is you are going from a flat file system in classic to a table driven database.
So all the data is taken from static files and written to a database.
So the script has a lot of data to convert.
Since it relies on one simple script. I would assume you are running into connection/timeout issues.
And may need to import chunks at a time.
The member stuff is small potatoes. It is the posts that write huge amounts of bytes to the tables.
If UBB was able to convert for you I would think it is well worth the money.
The typical fee is $99.00 ,I am not sure what you were quoted.